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The three-part, six-hour documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, examines the visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced.
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s HEMINGWAY to air Thursdays at 9 pm starting May 19Three-Part, Six-Hour Film Series Explores the Life and Work of the Legendary Writer and His Enduring Influence on Lite
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A message from Hemingway for our nuance-challenged times What happens when we lose our grip on our literary infrastructure? Ernest Hemingway on guard at Finca Vigia, his home outside Havana. The Cuban Revolution led him to fear looters and kidnapping. From "Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy," by Nicholas Reynolds. (William Morrow / Ernest Hemingway Photo Collection, JFK Library) By Tracy Dahlby 1:30 AM on Jun 27, 2021 CDT In July of 1961, when a self-inflicted shotgun blast killed Ernest Hemingway in Ketchum, Idaho, the news hit in a way that’s impossible to imagine today. Two years earlier, Ge...
Hemingway, The Garden of Eden, and Authenticity: A Post by Len Gutkin “I hate the myth of Hemingway. And the reason I hate the myth of Hemingway: It obscures the man. And the man is much more interesting than the myth.” So says Michael Katakis, the manager of the Hemingway estate, toward the very beginning of Ken Burns’s and Lynn Novick’s (excellent) recent documentary, Hemingway, on PBS. It is hard to imagine a more incomprehending attitude toward Hemingway, for whom – as Hemingway shows itself to know perfectly well throughout – the “man” and the “myth” are entirely en...
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick started working on their new docuseries about Ernest Hemingway almost seven years ago, when conversations about toxic masculinity and cancel culture were still at least a presidency away. But you’d be forgiven for thinking the series was a pandemic project, because Hemingway, and the conversations that take place within it, feel utterly of the moment. From gender fluidity and mental illness to sexual misconduct and racism, today’s most charged topics are discussed at length in the series because they were part and parcel of the iconic, mercurial writer, whose ow...